What is it? ----------- NOTE: This module is for 2.4 kernels only. For 2.6 kernels, activation is handled by the code in drivers/pci/quirks.c in the kernel source. If you have the latest 2.6 kernel and the quirks code does not activate your SMBus, try adding support in quirks.c, recompile and test your new kernel, and then submit a patch to us. Contact us if you need assistance. This is just a quick and dirty hack to get the hardware monitoring working on the ASUS P4B board under Linux. It works by turning on the SMBus PCI device. It is implemented as a module, p4b_smbus.o. It only works with the ICH2 (82801BA) and ICH4 (82801DB). ASUS switches off the SMBus PCI Device in the i801 ICH2/4 chip. I spoke two times with the German support and learned that: "We do not want the users to be irritated by just another PCI Device in the Win98 device manager." Really funny :-). NOTE: We have a report that as of kernel 2.4.23, the kernel activates the SMBus PCI device, so that this module is not required. What does the module do? ------------------------ (Note: the following instructions assume the ICH2. For the ICH4, the PCI IDs are 24C0 and 24C3) It turnes off (!) the bits number 8 and 3 in the LPC register of the ICH2. This you can also try as root with setpci and pcitweak. First do a: setpci -d 8086:2440 f2.w You will get an hex number VAL - in my case 148 (Hex)-, where you have to erase the two bits - in my case you get 40 (Hex). Then do a: setpci -d 8086:2440 f2.w=VAL Running "lspci -n" you will not see any new device, but with "pcitweak -l" you should get a line similar to this in the output: PCI: 00:1f:3: chip 8086,2443 card 1043,8028 rev 12 class 0c,05,00 hdr 00 The important thing is the "8086,2443" here. The device is activated, but not included in /proc/pci and /proc/bus/pci/devices. This is the reason for running the module. What are the system requirements? --------------------------------- - Obviously a board with Intel i801BA/DB ICH2/4 with broken bios. - A linux working with a 2.4 kernel AND hotplug support in it! - A installed kernel tree and gcc. - i2c and sensor modules installed. How to install? --------------- Simply do a: make -f Makefile.p4b insmod p4b_smbus.o modprobe i2c-core modprobe i2c-i801 modprobe i2c-dev modprobe i2c-proc Then run your sensor: modprobe w83781d What should i never do? ----------------------- Do not try to do a "rmmod p4b_smbus" before a "rmmod i2c-i801". The other way around should be okay. Otherwise you remove the PCI device without notifying the i2c driver. ------------------------------- Ilja Rauhut